The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27

the club will be in a healthy financial
condition when the season OF ems. The
players have been ordered to report
for duty, and the preliminary work
will be commenced without delay.
Rsccius will not pitch this year, but
play the field regularly. Manager
Kelly thinks that Hecker. Rlmsey,
Vesch, Chamberlain and Neal are
abundantly able to do the twirling.
Reccius pitched in great form, how.
ever, in California, and, under the
new rules, it is thought that he would
prove to be a strong man in the box.
Secretary White has in press his
International League baseball book for
1887. The volume will be somewhat
larger than last year, and besides the
constitution and playing rules OF the
LEAGUE will contain the official re-
cords for 1885. These have been quite
generally published with the excep-
ton OF the stolen base record, which
has not been made up until very re-
Gently.
II the practics games that are now
being INDUCED in all over the country
demonstrate anything, it is the fact
that the batting will BE- terrific under
the new rules. The Detroit pitchers,
Baldwin and Geizsin, az we'll as Pyle
and Baldwin, OF the Chicsgos, and
others, who last year held the batsmen
at their mercy, are being batted every
day row for hits numbering anywhere
between twelve and eighteen.
Gus Shallix, when Last heard from.
was working in an East End foundry,
His ball playing days srs over, it is
eaid, for his arm has given out. Shall
lix was looked upon a few years ago
as q wonder. His speed was :rtainly
terrific, but handicapped as he was by
the rule which allowed a man his base
when hit by pitcher, he was not 90
effective as he might have been. In
the League he wsuld have proved q
terror.
By decision OF the Supreme Court
oil Racine in the case OF Widship, who
was engaged for the season by the
Portland Club, and released after play
ing few games, the player RECEIVERS
his salary for the full time for which
he was engaged. This will m AXE man
ayers careful about engaging every
phenomenon" they hear of for the
season and then dropping him unless
he beats everything that ever hand ed
ball. Misrepresentation as to ability
or willfully playing poor ball must bs
clearly proven before 3 club can break
its contract with player.
Terry, the young pitcher of Che
Brooklyn Club, has mapped out line
OF pra:iice which it would be we'll for
other pitchers to copy. Terry begins
the day with a long run, and then
starts to practice pitching On the
floor OF the Nassau @ ub's gymnasium
he has laid out square similar to a
pitchers box. Fifty feet away he has
put up wooden frams. 1t is Just as
wide as a home plate and about three
feet long, and is raised from the floor
In such way that the bottom Ia Just
about where the batsmsn's knees
would be, while the top is about even
with his shoulder. Through this
frame Terry attempts to put the ball.
His catcher in this practice is spring |
mattress bshini the frame, which |
SENDS Inc pail BACK.
An important baseball question will |
be settled this epripg. Many OF the |
players have absolutely refused to |
Gig st the fiIurss Get forth by the |
c ubs' officials Ia the American As.
resolution has been passed |
giving the clubs the power to black
list their men if they refuse to sign. |
The league has been more cautious,
but it amounts TO the same thing, ss |
the other managers will simply de-
cline to give employment to players OF |
this sort. 1t remains now for the |
br ltherhood to clmS to tho front aud |
show the real obi sCssxf their organiS,-
ton, for If they do not take s5me &C.
ton they may as we'll disband. The |
Am ericsn Ass citation PLAYERS who |
have refused 10 Sign in defiance OF the
black list have all eonsultld lawyers
and ara &C ing under their advice.
The baseball crsz) in Macon, Ga,
hiss gone so far that the teschers in the |
schools entertain the pupils with an
ecdotes regarding the lives OF members
oil the D5troit team. This is an abso- |
lutte fact, SAYS correspondent. 1t |
wat only last Mordsy that the hotel
vas hssieged with an unusually lsrge
of schoolboys, anxious to OBJ,
tain a lcok at Tt ompson. There was
not tile curiosity shown among tie
other players to learn why the big
right fielder was the object Of 80 much
att3nt.on. 1t developed that one Ct
the teachers ia the schools had hnoWn
Thompson in early dsys, and had en-
tertsiued the young hopefuls unde.
his charge with tbs story Of how the
gigantic fielder's ability had been die
covered and how he hogan his life On